Comrades, I deeply regret that I used the word "machine gun," and I give my solemn promise henceforth not to use such words in a figurative sense, for they needlessly frighten people and after that it becomes impossible to understand what they want. (Applause.) No one is going to fire a machine gun at anyone, and we are absolutely certain that neither Comrade Kiselev nor anyone else will have to fire.

First published in 1933
in the book "The Tenth Congress of the RCP(b).
March 1921." Moscow
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